A system that's broken

Nearly a year ago I blipped this - something that ostensibly was a joyous day - what should have been the removal of an evil from the lives of my family. But our Court system doesn't work - that's not just my personal opinion - its the wording my legal team used in our formal complaint last month. & why were we complaining? 
Well it seems that when one of the highest judges in the system awards you "full costs" it doesn't mean that - it means those costs will be assessed & in reality anything over 70% will be considered a win - but we knew that & were prepared for it. To be 'assessed' requires a standard district judge to read through the independent assessors report (which we pay to have done) & then effectively rubber stamp it. Something that just doesn't seem too difficult does it? & yet a year later it hadn't even been scheduled into the system.
So today I met with my lawyer & we finally have a date for the costs to be assessed - March 16th, a staggering 51 weeks after the 'final' trial date.
Five years after Mum was killed, four and a half years after her killer was jailed for 23 years,  four years after we first asked a Court to rule on removing this killer from stopping us selling their jointly owned properties, three years after the first judge said yes to us, a full year after one of the highest judges in the land (the head of the Chancery Court) awarded every single matter in our favour - now someone can read a four page document & sign the bottom - perhaps then we can start to have some closure.